Late to the critique
If you were to ask me about Ninja Gaiden 3 on any day other than today, I would have been the first guy to tell you that it's barely worth playing, and Razor's Edge makes the game barely playable. It's not comparable to the first two games, we all know that critique...
Surprisingly, I went back to the game. While there still are issues that I have with the game, I'm enjoying it more than I remember. I chalk this up to either; me being wrong on my opinion, or me just being extra thirsty for linear character action games without open world aspects.
Here's what I've noticed after getting about 80% into the game.
- The QTEs may be unnecessary but they don't add or take anything away from the game.
- The sprinting away from an enemy sections, they're non-issues since I can just re-do them without penalty if I die.
- The dinosaur boss isn't as bad as I remember.
- There are still occasional frame drops. I'm playing on PS3, the first time I played Razor's Edge, it was on the Wii U, so I don't remember how frequently the Wii U framerate dropped, if at all.
- Playing with characters other than Ryu. I had a small issue with this ever since Ninja Gaiden Sigma, since Rachel moved like pudding and I didn't like the way she controlled. I would really rather not have to play with Ayane but I didn't have a problem with her in this game.
- The walking slow sections with the bloody sword thing. I don't pay attention to the story at all, maybe it breaks up the pace of the game for some people. It doesn't matter that much.
- A lot of the enemies do pestering off-screen / grab you while you're blocking shit similar to the way they did in Ninja Gaiden 2 vanilla, it's not exactly the same but even though that stuff is annoying I have a hard time blaming NG3 solely for it since it's been in the series for awhile.
I guess my point is that even though Razor's Edge may be a 6.5/10 at best, I am enjoying my time with the game and believe me, I used to be the biggest anti-Hayashi guy who swore to Itagaki's direction.
If you have issues with the game I would love it if you shared them with me.
If you were to ask me about Ninja Gaiden 3 on any day other than today, I would have been the first guy to tell you that it's barely worth playing, and Razor's Edge makes the game barely playable. It's not comparable to the first two games, we all know that critique...
Surprisingly, I went back to the game. While there still are issues that I have with the game, I'm enjoying it more than I remember. I chalk this up to either; me being wrong on my opinion, or me just being extra thirsty for linear character action games without open world aspects.
Here's what I've noticed after getting about 80% into the game.
- The QTEs may be unnecessary but they don't add or take anything away from the game.
- The sprinting away from an enemy sections, they're non-issues since I can just re-do them without penalty if I die.
- The dinosaur boss isn't as bad as I remember.
- There are still occasional frame drops. I'm playing on PS3, the first time I played Razor's Edge, it was on the Wii U, so I don't remember how frequently the Wii U framerate dropped, if at all.
- Playing with characters other than Ryu. I had a small issue with this ever since Ninja Gaiden Sigma, since Rachel moved like pudding and I didn't like the way she controlled. I would really rather not have to play with Ayane but I didn't have a problem with her in this game.
- The walking slow sections with the bloody sword thing. I don't pay attention to the story at all, maybe it breaks up the pace of the game for some people. It doesn't matter that much.
- A lot of the enemies do pestering off-screen / grab you while you're blocking shit similar to the way they did in Ninja Gaiden 2 vanilla, it's not exactly the same but even though that stuff is annoying I have a hard time blaming NG3 solely for it since it's been in the series for awhile.
I guess my point is that even though Razor's Edge may be a 6.5/10 at best, I am enjoying my time with the game and believe me, I used to be the biggest anti-Hayashi guy who swore to Itagaki's direction.
If you have issues with the game I would love it if you shared them with me.
